campfire appears in my nostrils. My skin grows slightly warmer‚ and my once cool‚ wet‚ clammy palms have suddenly become cool and dry. I want to be valedictorian‚ and in less than a minute‚ I can feel the tiny fire grow larger‚ enveloping my stomach‚ liver‚ gall bladder‚ and spleen. The fire has grown to the size where one could see an array of colors: orange‚ red‚ yellow‚ and the faintest blue-tinge located in the center of the fire. I want to win states for soccer; immediately the fire increases
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The Anatomical and Physical Features of Frogs Abstract: People have always wondered how frogs have the capability to live in both wet and dry environments. So why not dissect a frog to find out how. Frogs have both physical features like their skin that allows them to breath in water. They also have anatomical features like humans that allow them breath air just like us. Introduction As many people have learned throughout elementary and middle school amphibians are animals that have the
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product that should be efficiently eliminated from the body. As the bilirubin formed is water insoluble‚ it binds to albumin upon entering the blood as unconjugated or free bilirubin. Upon the bilirubin binding to albumins‚ it is transported to the liver‚ where it undergoes conjugation and excretion. Upon its separation from albumin on hepatocyte membrane‚ bilirubin binds to specific carriers and is intracellularly transferred to the site where it conjugates with glucuronic acid to form bilirubin diglucuronide
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incisions AEB SOB during ambulation‚ increased respirations at 38‚ O2 sat 80% room air after walking 50 ft. Normal Physiology: The gallbladder is situated inferior to the liver. The gallbladder is a structure that functions as a storage space for bile that is produced in the liver. The liver produces and secretes bile into the gallbladder from the right and left hepatic duct join together to become the common hepatic duct then into the gallbladder via the cystic duct. During the
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SURGICAL Introduction Hepatocellular cancer (HCC) is defined as the primary malignancy of hepatocyte. The cause of HCC is usually because of the scarring of liver‚ which means liver cirrhosis. Liver cirrhosis may be caused by alcohol abuse‚ autoimmune diseases of the liver‚ hepatitis B or C virus infection‚ chronic inflammation of the liver or iron overload within the body. The incidence of HCC is especially high all over Asia pacific region than Western countries is because of the prevalence of
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Introduction In sports‚ the competitive drive to win can be very intensive between athletes. Winning in the game usually brings rewards to athletes both financially and psychologically. Such temptations and the consecutive pressures faced by athletes to excel in the sporting events‚ attempts to achieve a rival edge especially when the application of performance enhancing drugs by athletes in sports activities has becoming a new trend and relatively common. Performance enhancing drugs are used so
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disorder. This means that it is inherited from both parents. For a child to develop the disease both the mother and the father must to carry the necessary gene. If in fact the child inherits the disease he or she will experience problems with the liver‚ spleen‚ lungs‚ bone marrow‚ and in some cases the brain. The disease is caused by excessive amounts of a fatty substance called glucocerebroside. Glucocerebroside accumulates in the organs when there is a deficiency of the enzyme‚ glucocerebrosidase
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Purpose The digestive system prepares food for use by hundreds of millions of body cells. Food when eaten cannot reach cells (because it cannot pass through the intestinal walls to the bloodstream and‚ if it could would not be in a useful chemical state. The gut modifies food physically and chemically and disposes of unusable waste. Physical and chemical modification (digestion) depends on exocrine and endocrine secretions and controlled movement of food through the digestive tract. Mouth Mouth
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1. Within the circulatory system the liver has a unique anatomic location in that it effectively filters all blood coming from the intestinal tract by way of the portal vein before it is pumped to the general circulation. The liver often sees drugs at their highest concentrations‚ since it is the first organ perfused by blood containing the drug after absorption from the intestinal tract. Approximately 10-15% of total blood volume can be presented to the liver at any given time. The entire absorbed
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Biology speech Jordan Rees Hepatitis C has infected over 130million people world-wide and is an infectious disease normally affecting the liver and is sometimes asymptomatic‚ which means that the carrier or person affected would experience no symptoms. It is caused by the hepatitis C virus or HCV for short and lives in liver cells. HCV is a not a casually transmitted disease‚ so it can’t be spread by kissing‚ hugging‚ touching‚ sneezing etc. it is transmitted through blood or blood to blood
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